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The Hillsborough Agreement: The text of the Bobby Sands Commemorative lecture given by Danny Morrison in Twinbrook, Belfast #OnThisDay Sunday 4th May 1986.
The Hillsborough Agreement (1986) — Sinn Féin
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay, 3rd May 1979, elections to Westminster were held. Here's the SDLP manifesto from that election:
SDLP Election Manifesto, Westminster Election, 1979 (1979) — Social Democratic and Labour Party
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Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago
@CLR@mastodon.ieJames Connolly Festival 2025
This year’s festival runs from Tuesday, May 6th to the 11th with almost all events taking place at Connolly House and The New Theatre. It will include a week-long James Connolly Art Exhibition. Seven artists have been invited to prepare prints and paintings that will be available to view and purchase throughout the week. Similarly, ‘Grand Canal Demolition Derby’ is a Playstation style video game set in Dublin where players learn of the…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/james-connolly-festival-2025/
James Connolly Festival 2025
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Published #OnThisDay 2nd May 1987:
Marxist Leninist Weekly, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Marxist-Leninist Weekly, Vol 17, No. 5 (1987) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieMay Day Greetings 2025
Happy May Day to everyone! News of events - don't forget this if you're in Dublin - very welcome.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/may-day-greetings-2025/
May Day Greetings 2025
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The 1st of May was first marked as International Workers’ Day in 1890, when the Second International called for demonstrations.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/01/#event-6415
On This Day, 1st May
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New episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast:
We talk to Maurice Casey (@mauricejcasey@mastodon.ie) about his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, which tells the story of May O’Callaghan and her social circle in the Comintern’s Moscow accommodation for international communists.
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago
@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieHotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, with Maurice Casey
🎙️New episode!
We talk to Maurice Casey about his book,
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals.
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieMay Day march and rally, Dublin, Thursday 1st May 2025
The annual May Day march and rally will take place on May Day, Thursday 1st May 2025, at 7 pm (assembling at 6.30 pm), marching from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, to Beresford Place (Liberty Hall) for the rally and speeches. The speakers will be Paul Gavan, newly appointed Irish Congress of Trade Unions Advocacy and Campaigns Officer, Aisling Hedderman, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), Roh…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/may-day-march-and-rally-dublin-thursday-1st-may-2025/
May Day march and rally, Dublin, Thursday 1st May 2025
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New document:
Saoirse Nua, No. 2, December 2010 / January 2011.
Produced by Republican Sinn Féin Limerick, a group which emerged from an RSF split in 2010.
Saoirse Nua, No. 2 (2010) — Republican Sinn Féin [Limerick]
Irish Left Archive
New document:
Dawn, No. 104.
Dawn – An Irish Magazine on Nonviolent Action, Civil Liberties and Movements for Change – was produced in the 1980s.
Dawn
Irish Left Archive
Since it's Easter weekend, here's a collection of documents marking previous anniversaries of the 1916 #EasterRising.
Document Collection: 1916 Easter Rising: Anniversaries and Commemorations
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Published #OnThisDay 20th April 1985:
"Celebrate May Day! Come to the rally at Dublin's GPO" "Farewell to Comrade Enver!"
Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
The paper also marks the funeral of Albanian leader, Enver Hoxha. The #CPIML took a Hoxhaist position after the Sino-Albanian split.
There's a wide range of political material on our site, but this remains among the most unsettling to pass when scrolling through them… 
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6130/
From a housing occupation in Dublin (from @electionlit@mastodon.online).
Leo Varadkar Face Mask (2018)
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay, 19th April 2003, demonstration was held in Newbridge, Kildare, to oppose the invasion of Iraq and the US military’s use of Shannon Airport. These documents were distributed at the demo and to promote it:
Political Material from: Anti-War Demonstration, 19th April 2003
Irish Left Archive
Nicanews, February 1995.
Produced by the Irish Nicaragua Support Group
Nicanews, February 1995 (1995) — Irish Nicaragua Support Group
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieAlan MacSimóin Collection in Dublin City Library and Archive
Great news from Dublin City Council/Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath, a testament to a left wing activist life (and there's a fine photo of Alan courtesy of Mary Muldowney). The Alan MacSimóin Collection is a wonderful collection for researchers interested in left wing activism in Dublin over the past few decades. Share Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via WhatsApp…
Alan MacSimóin Collection in Dublin City Library and Archive
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In the latest Irish Left Archive Podcast episode, we spoke to Aidan Beatty about his book, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism.
You can listen here: https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/the-party-is-always-right-the-untold-story-of-gerry-healy-and-british-trotskyism-with-aidan-beatty
For more on the relationship of the left in Britain to Ireland, the archive includes a range of material from British left groups, including from Healy's Workers' Revolutionary Party. You'll find an overview in our British Left on Ireland collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2835/
Document Collection: The British Left on Ireland
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Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieNew look for the Irish Left Archive
We're currently working towards a new version of the Irish Left Archive website, which is showing its age a bit since we launched it in 2013. That will happen sometime later this year, but in the meantime we've refreshed the existing site to match the new style. Yep, it's red. We originally avoided red as too on-the-nose, but the old blue always felt a bit contrarian, and the rest of the rainbow gets a bit party-specific.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/new-look-for-the-irish-left-archive/
New look for the Irish Left Archive
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New document:
The Clann, 29th February 1948.
Newspaper of Clann na Poblachta. This edition comes just after CnaP joined the first inter-party government after the 1948 election.
The Clann, 29th February 1948 (1948) — Clann na Poblachta
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